Pages Crawled
This number indicates “the cumulative total of URLs on your site that Google has ever crawled. Not all crawled URLs get indexed, and Google may discover some URLs by other means such as inbound links from other sites. This number should increase over time as new pages are added to your site.”

Pages Not Selected
These are the pages on your site that Google has crawled, but “that are not indexed because they are substantially similar to other pages, or that have been redirected to another URL.”

Pages Blocked
Lastly, these pages are those that Google cannot crawl because they are disallowed in your robots.txt file.

This is incredibly useful information that allows webmasters to quickly troubleshoot indexing issues on their websites. For example if you inadvertedly block too many pages in robots.txt, or make a mistake in your attempts to sculpt the indexing of your site (for example of you have faceted navigation and want to ensure Google focuses on the most semantically relevant facets).

Google’s Pierre Far has elaborated on the official blog post, which is definitely worth a read as well as it’ll give you more hands-on details on how to use these new reports.

State of Digital Events

Search other topics

Our Archives

What is State of Digital?

In a fast-changing digital environment, it is hard to keep up. Knowing what are the strategies and tactics you need to deploy to become better at your marketing is not an easy task.

State of Digital aims to help (digital) marketers from every level. Help them find their way in this changing environment. By sharing the latest strategies and tactics. By offering training. Using industry experts, State of Digital tries to help you become a better marketer.